What are we twittening on about? Upkeep

Twitten is a local word for lane or passage. It is usually a Perhaps you might like to help keep your local twitten clear of narrow path between two walls or hedges and leads from one litter and weeds, or organise a group to care for the twittens in street to another. The twittens are part of the heritage of this your area. If everyone who used a twitten took care of it there area and are great ways to save time, get away from congested would be no rubbish or undergrowth and it would make for a roads and make getting around easier and more sustainable. If much more pleasant walk so, please, take your rubbish home!

you’ve ever wondered what that funny little path is – well, now you know – it’s probably a twitten!

Where can I get another twitten map? This map provides details of the twittens and also shows bus stops so that you can use to get around the town If you want more twitten maps for your friends, or visitors, they easily without using the car. are available from • Some of the twittens follow old drovers routes, or even link up County Council to help you walk large parts of the area without having to go https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/land-waste-and- housing/public-paths-and-the-countryside/ near a main road. They also often provide a short cut to the local shops, bus stop or railway station. So there’s good reason to get twittening! Other ways of walking and getting fit

Contact other organisations such as:

Get to know the twittens of Worthing • www.ramblers.org.uk • www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/sport-and-leisure

Get there quicker with this map ‐ which includes details of the • www.worthingdownlanders.org.uk many twittens in Broadwater, Tarring, , West • www.walkinginsussex.co.uk/worthing.php Worthing and Worthing town centre. • www.worthingstriders.co.uk ) • www.worthingharriers.com ) a bit more ambitious! The benefits of using twittens History of twittens

• They provide short cuts, thus saving you time. Twittens exist all over Worthing as the remains of pathways • You can avoid the frustration of having to drive and then (later, legal rights of way) from one village to another, eg Heene find somewhere to park for short, local journeys. to Tarring or Worthing to Broadwater.

• You can avoid getting stuck in traffic queues when you’re only popping out for a paper. The one in Broadwater is called, in places, the Quashetts or • You can save time and money on your journey. Squashetts. At one time, apparently, there was a gate at the Remember, walking your one‐mile trips could save you top of High Street (the main street of the town) where there over £160 each year in fuel! Did you know that more was an altercation between the smugglers, who used the route than half of all car trips are five miles or less and account across the fields to Broadwater, and the revenue men who for about a fifth of household car CO² emissions? pursued them.

• You could improve your health. Walking is a great way to give your heart and lungs a workout, and helps burn One twitten followed a line from the Chatsworth Hotel side of those calories. Steyne Gardens, through a tunnel under the railway, then • The twittens could open up a whole new world of northwards to emerge on the corner of the Manor Ground in exploration for you and your family, discovering your Broadwater.

neighbourhood and your local history. (Find out more Library Place is a small cul‐de‐sac on the east side of the Dome, about local history from your local library.) off Marine Parade. It is now mainly used by Stagecoach buses • It’s a great way to meet other twitteners and make local but has a long history and is part of one of the oldest twittens in friends. Worthing. It has been a public thoroughfare for at least two • You’ll find some peace and quiet away from the busy hundred years. The twitten extends from the north end of roads. Library Place to Warwick Street and was almost certainly used • It’s like a little bit of the countryside in the town. Perhaps by when she stayed in Worthing in the autumn of you’ll enjoy twittening so much you’ll be drawn to longer 1805. She would have used it to go from Stanford Cottage (now countryside walks! by Pizza Express), where she stayed, to the sea. Stagecoach wanted to close it on health and safety grounds, but Jane Austen fans have won a victory and may continue to use it, provided they seek prior consent from Stagecoach.

Use your twitten map to find the best route to the bus stop or Trains: railway station

Bus route 1: Town centre, Broadwater, Findon, The Worthing area has five stations at Goring, Durrington, , Worthing Central and . Bus route 5: Town centre, Broadwater, Durrington, West Durrington They are easily accessible and are served by many bus routes. Cycle racks have been installed at the stations and there are Bus route 6: Town centre, West Tarring, Durrington, frequent trains to London, , , and the south coast, and also cross country

Bus route 6a: Town centre, West Tarring, Durrington, services to link with other networks. West Durrington

Bus route 7: Town centre, Broadwater,

Bus route 8: Town centre, Goring, ,

Bus route 8a: Town centre, goring, Ferring

Bus route 9: Shoreham, Lancing, Worthing, West Durrington, Angmering,

Bus route 10: Town centre, West Tarring, Goring Green

Bus route 16: Lancing, East Worthing, Hospital, town centre, West Tarring

Bus route 23: Town centre, Broadwater, Findon, Horsham

Bus route 700: Brighton, Worthing, Littlehampton, , Bognor, , Portsmouth

Bus route Pulse: Lancing, Hospital, Town centre, Goring Road, West Durrington